It's not every day you get a $40,000 contribution to buy equipment for the police department." "That is something that is very important to us and important to the chief so we're more than happy and excited and hopefully there's going to be more to come in the future," he said.Ĭhapmond said Back the Blue has "done some smaller things for us in the first six to seven months, but this is the first major purchase. "I know you guys are very well trained as it is, but this is another aspect and something we can do to improve the relationships between you guys and the community. "This is another opportunity to improve your training," Pomeroy told officers gathered for Tuesday's ceremony. If we can support them with their training, I think it's a wonderful opportunity to keep our community safe."
"I think it's important that we all get together to show them that support and to help them make good decisions and better decisions in the future. "But now as a businessman here in Hot Springs I want to show these officers, all of them, how much the business community supports them for what they do in protecting our businesses and our families like they do," Berry said. "I had experience as a police officer in North Little Rock years ago and I know what goes on on their side of it and how it was many years ago when I did that," Berry said. If we want to change the narrative, we have to be just as loud so that's what we're trying to do." "We want to put some positive words out there about our police men and women," Pomeroy said. "A lot of agencies don't have this within their communities."
"He actually got some extra equipment thrown into the original quote for us to utilize and an additional day of training."īack the Blue 176 was formed in the fall to support law enforcement across Garland County with donations such as the simulator and it "is a fantastic opportunity to build trust and legitimacy within our community and to increase our training capabilities," Chapmond said. Pomeroy and he went to bat for us," Chapmond said. Kyler Pomeroy, Mike Tuohey, David Hafer, Dennis Berry and Nick Dodd, and "once we got the quote, we turned the negotiations over to Dr. The Back the Blue board of directors includes Dr.
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